Dear Journalists: Please Use This Definition Of "The Radiohead Model" Going Forward [The Idolator Glossary]
So last week's little controversy over Robert Smith saying that In Rainbows' pay-what-you-want experiment was maybe not so good for art led to me getting annoyed with the term "The Radiohead Model," and how it's been misused for the purposes of arguing that art should be free, or at least pay-what-you-like. (Not to mention that it also pulls quotes out of irritable pop stars.) A reader asked me to define the term outright, instead of just ranting about its misuse—and I figured that my attempt ...
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